Girdle



March 15, 1955 E. GEIGER Erm.

GIRDLE Filed Feb. 17, 1953 INVENTORS e s WALTER M55@ EMIL United StatesPatent O GIRDLE Emil Geiger and Walter Maag, Zurich, Switzerland,assignors to Egli & Co., Corsetfabrik A. G. Bruttisellen- Wangen,Bruttisellen, Switzerland Application February 17, 1953, Serial No.337,396

1 Claim. (Cl. 2-37) This invention relates to a garment and moreparticularly it relates to a garment formed as a girdle or the like.

The main object of this invention is to provide a girdle or the likewhich does not slide upwards on the body of the wearer, even if thelatter bows down or stretches itself, but always correctly fits on thebody.

For this purpose according to the present invention the girdle isprovided in its lower backward portion with an elastic supporting tape,arranged to engage beneath the buttocks or glutean muscles preventing incoaction therewith the garment from sliding upwards on the body of thewearer.

Further advantages of the invention will appear in the followingdescription in which a preferred embodiment of the invention isdescribed more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, inwhich:

Fig. 1 is a front view of a girdle,

Fig. 2 is a horizontal cross section along the line II-II of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is at reduced scale, a back view of the girdle when in use.

The illustrated girdle comprises a front middle section 1 flanked by twoside sections 2 and 3, a rear middle section 4, and in the zone of saidsection 1 two lower gussets 5. All these sections 1 to 5 are connectedtegether by seams. The sections 2 to 5 may for instance consist of tullefabric, made Without rubber, or may be formed as so called simplex orduplex elastic fabric, i. e. with the elastic threads running in one orboth directions. The front middle section 1 may for reasons cf estheticsbe made for example of satin, the inner side of which being then coveredby a lining. In order to make the drawings easy to understand there isonly a one-layer middle section 1 shown in Fig. 2. The upper edge of thegirdle is formed by a woven, sewed-on waist band 6, which overlaps theupper edge of the girdle sections 1 to 4 as well on the outside as onthe inside, extending over the entire periphery of the girdle and beingcircumferentially elastic. A sewed-on and also circumferentially elasticbeaded tape 7 is further provided at the lower edge of the girdle andfolded to form a doublelayer strip, one layer thereof being placed atthe outer side and the other layer at `the inside of the girdle sections2, 3, 4 and 5; the bordering tape 7 is sewed at its ends to the frontmiddle section 1 beyond which it does not extend. According to Fig. 1four garters 8 (not shown in Fig. 3) are attached to the bordering tape7 or to the lower edge of the girdle, respectively.

The girdle is provided interiorly at its lower backward portion with asupporting tape formed by a woven, comparatively broad elastic tape 9.This elastic tape 9 is fastened at its ends to the connecting seamsjoining the front middle section 1 of the girdle with the two lateralMice sections 2 and 3; intermediate its ends the elastic tape 9 is fixedto the seams connecting the rear middle section 4 with the two sidesections 2 and 3. The elastic tape 9 is arranged to extend with a slantacross the girdle in such a way, that its middle portion 9a located inthe Zone of the rear middle section 4 lies next to the lower edge of thegirdle, while the two ends of the elastic tape 9 have the greatestdistance from said lower girdle edge. The elastic tape 9 is of shortercircumferential length than the corresponding portion of the girdlealong which it extends, the shortening of the length of the tape beingsituated in the zone of the rear middle section 4 of the girdle, i. e.between the connecting seams of the rear middle` section 4 with the twoside sections 2 and 3.

In a girdle which is suitably made to measure in the described manner,the elastic tape 9 occupies such a position, that when the girdle isworn, the tape engages beneath the buttocks or glutean muscles of thewearer of the girdle so that the latter is tightly held on the body andcannot slide upward, even when the body is forwardly inclined or bent inany other manner. The easily exchangeable elastic tape 9 may be fastenedintermediate its ends also in any other manner to the girdle, instead orby cross stitches at two places, or any fastening of the elastic tape 9intermediate its ends may be omitted altogether.

The waist band 6 forming the upper edge of the girdle may be formed sothat some warp threads are omitted in or near the bent portion of theband situated between its exterior and interior layer forming a weakerzone extending circumferentially of the band 6, thereby permitting theband to readily bend inwardly in order to counteract the potentialrolling tendency of the band. According to a modification the band 6 isfixed to the inside of the girdle sections 1 to 4 by means of a simplemarginal layer only.

It is evident that for instance also a corselct or the like, or anyother foundation garment may be similarly formed as described.

We claim:

A girdle having a front middle section, two lateral sections and a rearmiddle section connected together by means of seams, an elasticsupporting tape extending interiorly lalong the lower rear portion ofsaid rear middle section and along said two lateral sections; said tapehaving its ends connected to the seams connecting said lateral sectionswith the front middle sections and further having its intermediateportions connected with the seams connecting said two lateral sectionswith the rear middle section in such a manner as to form a loop adaptedto pass beneath the buttocks or glutean muscles of the wearer in orderto prevent the girdle from sliding upwardly on the body; the ends ofsaid tape being connected to the girdle at a higher elevation than theconnections with the intermediate portion, so that the end portions ofthe tape extend obliquely upward from the intermediate portions.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS748,336 Babion Dec. 29, 1903 1,137,540 Schweinberg Aug. 27, 19151,482,123 Faust et al. Jan. 29, 1924 FOREIGN PATENTS 548,229 GreatBritain Oct. 1, 1942

